Sibling sponsors!!!

Hi guys,

Julie here for my first blog - I could type tons, but tonight I will start with the joy of meeting a lot of our church’s sponsored kids. A real surprise was that we have many sponsored siblings. Dave and Marion and George - your kids are siblings. Norm and Shelly and Rachel and Jeff we got a pic of your cuties - Melody and Kenia - sisters!! Keith and Rita and Jeff and Krista, Antoni and Iris are bro and sis!! So we will have pics of their home. We told them we lived down the street from you. (Unfortunately your “stuff” is in Brett and Lindsay’s luggage which is still “somewhere”( however, we’re sure it will get here and Abram will ensure it gets to Iris.

Speaking of siblings, Brett felt he made a friend with Dave and Shelly’s Jennifer’s brother. The Light’s gave him a football when we went to Jennifer’s home and he brought it back to the project. Then they had a game of soccer. We missed you Cliff!! Brett tied his new “friend’s” shoes and had a great time playing with them.

Bye for now

Julie

 

Project 235 Needs

We met with the pastor and the project supervisor this morning to find ways we could continue to be of some help when we return back to Canada. We narrowed down 2 specific ways we might try to help, out of all the many possibilities.

1)The church could use 500 Bibles for people in their congregation and in reaching out to others. Bibles cost about twice as much as we pay back in Canada, so few can afford them.

2) The school could use a computer lab. When kids hit their early teens, they tend to lose interest in the project because there are no resources for them or to keep their interest. A computer lab would be a huge asset to both keep them interested, but also to train them for work in the business world. This might be one of the few doors we could open for them to help some of them move out of poverty.

We will also ask the same questions to the next project we visit on Tues. We’ll keep you updated!

 

Abraham

Abraham is the Visitation director for Compassion in Honduras and he has been showing us around to the projects. He organizes all the visits to the area of sponsors who want to meet their children.  What an incredible gift to us as he is extremely busy but is willing to take time to assist us. He speaks excellent English and is a great source of information of anything we might ask. He has even offered to show us around the area all day Wednesday, taking us to sites we would like to see. Tourism is pretty much nonexistent down here so the tours we hoped to find aren’t there. So to have him show us around is too good to be true. He truly has a heart for this work as he makes very little and is busy constantly. He said in the business world he always went to bed tired, now he wants to go to bed tired having done God’s kingdom work.

 

Claudia (235)

Christina here with one closing thought for the day,

We met Claudia today. She is thirteen years old. She is bright, beautiful, humble, gentle, quiet and when she smiles her eyes shine with promise. We spent time with her and the project, had lunch with her at Burger King (she wanted a hamburger) and took her shopping for some new tops at the mall where we had lunch. She loves cartoons and is like any other teenager in that she has goals and aspirations. She wants to be a teacher. Even though her current situation looks bleak to the outsider, the odds are in her favour now that Compassion has stepped in (thanks Cliff and Sherry and all you other sponsors out there) with some much needed and appreciated assistance. One final observation, Claudia’s walk to the project is like crossing the Circumferential at rush hour.